Corrections and clarifications

A piece analysing the recent county council election results included Oxfordshire among counties where Labour "has now almost died out" (Councils of despair, 5 June, guardian.co.uk). In fact, Labour gained one councillor there to achieve a total of nine. Some readers also query the assertion in recent days that Labour holds no county councils. They point to Durham. This is a grey area. Durham became a unitary authority on 1 April. It is still controlled by Labour - elections were not held this year. In the European parliament elections, yesterday's front-page story, Labour's long, dark night, referred to the Liberal Democrats trailing fourth "as they did in 2005". The last European parliament election was in 2004.

Editing changes meant that an article about a new official history of the D notice system said, wrongly, that it was under this system that the media refrained from reporting Prince Harry's army stint in Afghanistan in 2007-08 (A book on media censorship, you say? 8 June, page 7, Media). The D notice system is intended for stories deemed to affect national security. The prince's deployment was not considered one of these.

Incorrect information supplied by the Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property appeared in a news agency story headed Cost to British economy of free downloads is revealed (30 May, page 14). What the story should have said was that if 1.3 million users sharing files at midday on a particular peer-to-peer website each downloaded just one file a day, this would mean free consumption of 473m items a year, not 4.73bn items.

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